Top "Knife" questions

Knife is a powerful command-line interface (CLI) that comes with Chef.

Which special characters need escaping in a solr query?

Update: I think this question has to do with solr syntax in general, and not Chef in particular. So while …

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Private key could not be loaded when I run "knife client list"

Configuration file written to /home/ubuntu/sudo /home/ubuntu/chef-repo/.chef/knife.rb ubuntu@mychefclient:~$ knife client list WARNING: No …

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Chef clients and validators

I'm trying to understand the concept of Chef clients and validators, and their relationship to the bootstrapping process. According to …

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Can I set fqdn for chef nodes?

I have several servers set up with a custom internal local domain - x.local. So I have servers s1.…

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Resolving and downloading chef cookbook dependencies

Let's say I want to use a community cookbook (i.e. http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/gerrit). So I will …

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How To Set An Attribute on a Chef Node?

I seem to be missing something obvious with Chef. I want to set an attribute on a node (a file …

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How to query cookbook versions on a node?

Usage case: The DevOps team launched a node sometime ago, and my team would like to know what's the version(…

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Getting a LAMP stack running on a Vagrant VM (under Windows 7 host), full instructions?

I have a Vagrant VM standard issue lucid32.box running. What would the complete instructions be to set up LAMP …

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Chef - create template with dynamic variable?

I'm having a bit of a challenge on a Chef recipe. I'm new to Chef, so please bear with me. …

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Chef PEM file invalid or mis-named?

My sytem username is myuser but I'm trying to bootstrap machines with a chef-validator.pem and then a blah.pem …

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